So, I admit to my newest addiction: podcasts.
I am such a Luddite that it is difficult for me to stay in the 21st century without slippage backward, but I finally had to get a new laptop. Successful at THAT I thought "How about a tablet, too" and THEN I discovered podcasts!
Oh, dear, oh my. I am already 80 and don't see how I can catch up before moving into the end times. Mine, that is.
Anyone else? And if so, tell me your favorites.
Here's mine.
True Crime Junkie
Death, Sex, and Money
Terrible, Thanks for Asking
Of course I can now listen to such things as Handel on the Law and Marketplace any time I want, not just 12-3 on Saturday and 4 pm on weekdays.
So I love Podcasts. How about you?
Best on them all in my blue ribbon race is "Terrible, Thanks for Asking", in which the moderator takes on a different subject weekly about things we have survived, things we are going through. Everything from infertility to widowhood to homelessness to- you- imagine- the- worst- and- they- cover- it.
Hope everyone's having a good new year. Or relatively so. And what in the WORLD should I post this under? Hearing?
My current favorites include Naked Lunch with Phil Rosenthal and David Wilde, which is something of an expansion of "Somebody Feed Phil" on Netflix. I also like This American Life, The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe, Alan Alda's Clear & Vivid, and Stuff You Missed in History Class.
One of my all-time favorites was a limited series called The India Hicks Podcast. India Hicks is the granddaughter of Lord Mountbatten (Prince Philip's uncle and the last Viceroy of India), and she interviews her "veddy, veddy" English mother, Lady Pamela Hicks about her incredible life. It's fascinating as well as hilarious, because at 90-something years old, Lady Pamela has lost any filters she might have had, so she really tells it like it was.
My podcast tastes tend to run a bit younger than my chronological age (so I can stay relevant with my kids), so I also listen to a few comedy podcasts including Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend and The Office Ladies.